Hal Higdon Quotes

There is no such thing as an average runner. We are all above average.

Hal Higdon

• Average
• Runners

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I am very amazed by the runners out there because I like jog to the garbage can outside sometimes, and I get tired.

  

  Kacy Catanzaro
  • Tired
  • Amazed
  • Runners

• My biggest fear in life is to be average.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Average

• On average, since 9/11, the FBI reckons that just over 100,000 terrorism leads each year have come over the transom. Analysts and agents designate them as immediate, priority or routine, but the bureau says every one is covered.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Year
  • Priority
  • Average

• There are no prizes for average performance.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Average
  • Performances
  • Prize

• That was one of my most surprising discoveries when I dug into the history of average-ism: When you actually get the data, it rarely captures anyone. Which then begs the question, why are we using this as a reference standard for human beings?

  

  L. Todd Rose
  • Why
  • History
  • Question

• The Age of Average gave us a lot. Take clothing: We've all benefited remarkably from large, medium and small sizes making things affordable and available, but when it really counts - the wedding gown and the pressurized fighter pilot suit - it's bespoke all the way.

  

  L. Todd Rose
  • Age
  • Small
  • Wedding

• If the devil cannot keep you from being saved, if next he fails to make you backslide, then he undertakes to keep you just an average Christian. Here he succeeds with most believers.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Christian
  • Devil
  • Average

• I'm an utterly average, total geek.

  

  Julia Roberts
  • Average
  • Geek

• People in science fiction flicks always seemed to know useful things about the places time travel took them. But what if the time traveler had been only an average history student? What then?

  

  Tad Williams
  • People
  • Time
  • History

• Often, I visualize a quicker, like almost a ghost runner, ahead of me with a quicker stride.

  

  Gabe Jennings
  • Ghost
  • Runners
  • Stride

• Capital punishment has probably been responsible for a good deal of human progress. The overwhelming majority of those executed were of the sort whose departures for bliss eternal improved the average intelligence and decency of the race.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Good
  • Progress
  • Race

• Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.

  

  Paul J. Meyer
  • Effort
  • Progress
  • Excellence

• Doctors can be replaced by software – 80% of them can. I’d much rather have a good machine learning system diagnose my disease than the median or average doctor.

  

  Vinod Khosla
  • Disease
  • Average
  • Software

• Jim Morrison was a well-built boy, larger than average, and young enough to maintain the engorged silent connection right through the residue of chemicals.

  

  Grace Slick Starship
  • Boy
  • Silent
  • Average

• No man can avoid being born average, but no man has to stay average.

  

  Satchel Paige
  • Man
  • Average

• A person with a flexible schedule and average resources will be happier than a rich person who has everything except a flexible schedule. Step one in your search for happiness is to continually work toward having control of your schedule.

  

  Scott Adams
  • Persons
  • Rich
  • Resources

• Roughly 1 in 6 Americans have Irish blood. I'd say it's probably safe to assume that the average Irish-American who only comes out on St. Patrick's Day has no idea of the sort of economic powerhouse Ireland has become.

  

  Scott McClellan
  • Ideas
  • Blood
  • Economic

• The average teen today spends about 35 hours a week in front of a screen of some kind: iPod, movie, TV, video. And a lot of it is good, but a lot of it's not. And so I think you've got that five hours a day of media coming into your kid's head that's creating a lot of havoc out there.

  

  Sean Covey
  • Kids
  • Today
  • Kind

• I suppose when I started playing guitar, it was the means to an end. I never thought of myself as a fully fledged guitar instrumentalist. And my early excursions on the electric guitar were curtailed when Eric Clapton came on the scene, and I decided I was never going to be in the same arena as a Clapton or a Peter Green.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Myself
  • Thought
  • End

• I'm a big journaler, so for every new journal, I would change the way my room looked and change the posters on the walls, and I would change what I was wearing, and I would have a playlist, and it all kind of corresponded and matched, and I would change my handwriting in the journals.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Change
  • New
  • Journal

• You cannot hope for change in others, you can only work toward it in yourself. And that's hard work.

  

  Lisa Unger
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Change

• We are the salt of the earth, mind you, not the sugar. Our ministry is to truly cleanse and not just to change the taste.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Mind
  • Earth

• I hate the way people use slide presentations instead of thinking. People would confront a problem by creating a presentation. I wanted them to engage, to hash things out at the table, rather than show a bunch of slides. People who know what they're talking about don't need PowerPoint.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Representation

• There is no such thing as an average runner. We are all above average.

  

  Hal Higdon
  • Average
  • Runners